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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Gísli Pálsson, 1949-
Title:
Introduction: Text, life, and saga
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
From sagas to society : comparative approaches to early
Iceland, edited by Gísli Pálsson
Published By: Original publisher
From sagas to society : comparative approaches to early
Iceland, edited by Gísli Pálsson
Enfield Lock, Middlesex, UK: Hisarlik Press. 1992. 1-25 p.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
=Gísli Pálsson
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2004. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Early Icelanders (EQ02)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Reviews and critiques (114);
Verbal arts (5310);
Status, role, and prestige (554);
Districts (634);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The Icelandic sagas have been extensively studied as pieces
of text, as literarly and historical documents, and as potentially valuable sources of
ethnographic information on early Iceland and medieval Scandinavia. As a source of cultural
data, this essay examines the sagas from the standpoint of how they can be used to extract
information about social life and its transformation, and their ethnographic and historical
validity.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
11
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
eq02-011
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Essay
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
For bibliographical references see document 10: [Gísli
Pálsson]
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
no date
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is a ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data
Social Anthropologist-4
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
John Beierle ; 2002
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
medieval period
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Iceland
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Icelanders
